By: Antonio Chirumbolo SUNY 2013 October 23rd 2011 –Â The FDA has raised the recall of CooperVision’s AVAIRA Toric Soft Contact Lenses to Class I as a result of silicone residue on the lenses that potentially can result in discomfort, eye injury, or blurred vision. The original recall of the lenses was issued on August 19th …
By: Dr. O. A. Negrón The U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is the last and only jurisdiction of the United States of America where licensed Doctors of Optometry are not allowed to use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of ocular health conditions in their patients. Imagine yourself graduating from Optometry School and passing all parts …
By: Matthew Geller – SUNY Optometry 2013 Warning: The article you are about to read is slightly exaggerated and was written to be comical representation, yet at the same time an authentic expression of the life of a 2nd year of optometry student. Strap on your white clinic coat because you are about to go …
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On Thursday February 24th 2011 the Kentucky Optometric Association achieved a massive victory for the state of Kentucky, its OD’s and patients and of course for the profession of Optometry. Specifically, the KOA worked long and hard to get a new piece of legislation passed that would improve access to quality eye care. The bill is called …
Today is the first ever audio interview on OptometryStudents.com! With many more audio and video interviews planned we are very excited to kick off this new feature. The interview is with Dr. Mike Veliky, Secretary & Treasurer and Center Director of the Rochelle Park Office of OMNI Eye Services in New Jersey. Prior to working with …
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[poll id=”15″] Completing a residency is an option available to optometry students, and although it is not mandatory, it is certainly an opportunity that is worth considering. Residencies are a means for students, who have graduated optometry school, to continue learning and training at the highest level. This additional educational experience allows the student to …
I said it before and I will say it again… …the profession of optometry faces pressures from the federal government, state governments, other medical professions and from optometrists themselves and it is the American Optometric Association (AOA) that keeps our profession healthy, growing and moving in a positive direction. To sum it up, if you …
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First off we would like to thank all of the optometry students who submitted responses to win the free set of NETTER’S ANATOMY flash cards. We hope that Chad Parks from the Illinois College of Optometry will use them to excel in his anatomy course! Congrats Chad, you are the winner! – Please use the …
Here is an article about transitioning from student to practitioner and to offer my advice for optometry students. – Dr. Kestenbaum First, let me tell you a little bit about myself. After falling inlove with Boston on a brisk March day in 1976, the day of my interview at the New England College Of Optometry …
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Before I entered optometry school I knew there would be some really cool things I would learn and experience throughout my 4 years, knowledge that would be unobtainable elsewhere. Now that I am in school there is not a day that goes by that I don’t learn something that fascinates me. Yet I can only …
